For four generations, artists at the Kousyuuya studio in Nikko, Japan have developed and mastered an amazing creative process. The artists make stylized dragon images in a practice called Hitofude Ryuu.
The artists make details to the head using several small strokes. But the long, curving, multi-colored body is just one--one!--brush stroke.
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What I really would have liked to have seen was how the brush was loaded with paint.
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There's a digital version of that technique at around 1:00 in this video.
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